Dunkirk

[ duhn-kurk ]

/ ˈdʌn kɜrk /

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noun

French Dun·kerque

[dœn-kerk]. /dœ̃ˈkɛrk/. a seaport in N France: site of the evacuation of a British expeditionary force of over 330,000 men under German fire May 29–June 4, 1940.

a period of crisis or emergency when drastic measures must be enforced: The smaller nations were facing a financial Dunkirk.

a city in W New York, on Lake Erie.

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Words nearby Dunkirk

dunk, Dunkel, Dunker, Dunkerque, dunking, Dunkirk, dunk shot, Dun Laoghaire, Dunlap, dunlin, Dunlop

How to use Dunkirk in a sentence

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He began showing some promise in 2003, taking fifth place at race known as the Four Days of Dunkirk in May of that year.
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That was an “Obama initiative” in about the same way that Dunkirk was a Churchill initiative.
The GOP’s One-Sided War on Dems|Michael Tomasky|September 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The Republican Guard pulled off a "desert Dunkirk" to fight another day.
The Sins of the First Gulf War|Geoffrey Wawro|January 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST

And now and then one finds, at the hotel in Dunkirk, some English nurses who are having a holiday.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart
Air raids had grown common in Dunkirk, and there were no street lights in the little city.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart
This day come the King's pleasure-boats from Calais, with the Dunkirk money, being 400,000 pistolles.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
Reckoning it with Dunkirk and the Vendean expedition, the government had to confess to three failures in the year.
The Political History of England - Vol. X.|William Hunt
Apples and grapes are sent away to other points, and no doubt supply in a measure the breweries and distilleries of Dunkirk.
Ocean to Ocean on Horseback|Willard Glazier

Cultural definitions for Dunkirk

Dunkirk

The scene of a remarkable, though ignominious, retreat by the British army in World War II. Dunkirk, a town on the northern coast of France, was the last refuge of the British during the fall of France, and several hundred naval and civilian vessels took the troops back to England in shifts over three days.

notes for Dunkirk

The term Dunkirk is sometimes used to signify a desperate retreat.